Japan Will Seek to Keep Many Farm Products Out of a Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his party will not enter into negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement unless the other parties to the talks allow Japan to continue its high tariffs on a number of agricultural products.

The Japanese government has identified so-called sensitive products it wants to protect with high tariffs, subsidies or both: rice, milk powder and butter, beef, sugar, wheat ...